#38: Penchant for Hyperbole

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: watching your email, hearing your GnuPG key, the smell of fresh-baked OpenStack, a taste of ARM on Fedora, a touch of Skynet.

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This episode’s title is dedicated to Peter Larsen. We heard you, and welcome your feedback!

• Lauren wins the National Center for Women & Information Technology Aspirations in Computing 2014 Ohio Affiliate Award
• PaaS and Three Cruelties of Federal IT
• Gunnar enjoys Plague Inc when not catching up on Game of Thrones
• Dave says Roku 3 + Android app + {YouTube|Netflix} = Awesome
  • Almost related: Fulfill your New Years resolution of clearing out your YouTube backlog at 2x speed



• Pandora for Android gets an alarm clock but it needs a cell or wifi connection


• Learn Over 60 Google Now Commands with This Infographic


• Jaguar makes fun of Mercedes-Benz cars for having the vestibular ocular reflexes of a chicken


• BadBIOS, part n: Acoustic cryptanalysis, and there’s a CVE for that


• Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers
  • Disable it if you want: Disable Automatic Image Loading in Gmail to Save Data and Privacy



• PSA: Your Phone Logs Everywhere You Go. Here’s How to Turn It Off


• Ebooks now read you
  • Related: Google Play Books update allows ePub and PDF uploads right from your device



• Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
  • Related: U.S. military may have 10 robots per soldier by 2023
  • See also: Cyberdyne Systems, DARPA Tried to Build Skynet in the 1980s, A Bizarre Petting Zoo Where Robots Replace Animals
  • D&G DIY Joke Kit of the Week: Robot anesthesiologists to put patients under before colonoscopies



• Turning mobile phones into 3D scanners


• Microsoft Security Essentials misses 39% of malware in Dennis test


• Open Cloud Meetup, hosted by our own Jason Callaway


• The Dan and Gunnar Show presents Is it PaaS or something else? via web January 14 and 15


• Massachusetts launches open cloud to spur big data R&D


• Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 is here


• Fedora 20 is out: ARM is now Tier 1 and Gunnar’s FedUp


• Today in “OS is dead”: Want to run OpenShift on ARM? OK, why not


• Dan Risacher on Hellekson’s Law


• Betteridge’s Law: For example, Is REST losing its flair – REST API Alternatives


• HT Robin Price: WebRTC and Echoplex


• Salt vs. gravel vs. cheese vs. beet juice

Cutting Room Floor

• HT Jim Stogdill: Fear, Uncertainty, Dopamine (or: “How to build an effective cult”)
  • Totally unrelated: Free OpenShift stickers!



• Easily denounce your friends with a North Korean press release generator


• This week in cognitive surplus: George Takei’s and Newt Gingrich’s Amazon reviews


• Why are eggs egg shaped?


• This Crazy Pneumatic Tube System Will Deliver Burgers at 87 MPH


• Nokia’s Strategy For Selling The Lumia 2520 Windows 8 Tablet Is To Make You Very Uncomfortable


• EGTS stands for Electric Green Taxiing System and can stand for other things too


• How to make really long words in German


• Charming Parisian Subway Etiquette Guide


• Airport cell phone crashing

We Give Thanks

• Peter Larsen for being a good sport about our show titles
• Dan Risacher for advancing the cause of Hellekson’s Law astroturfing
• Robin Price for the WebRTC and Echoplex pointers
• Jim Stogdill for mind-hacking videos